As visuals circulated all over social media of people marching with logos, flags and regalia, several photos and videos appeared of marchers with a modified version of the Red Wings logo slapped onto their shields and flags.

The Red Wings made clear they were not involved and quickly condemned the use of the logo – "We are exploring every possible legal action as it pertains to the misuse of our logo in this disturbing demonstration," their statement said.

It was unclear who or what group was carrying the modified Red Wings logos, but the hockey fan site Russian Machine Never Breaks attributed the logo use to "a Michigan-based group of Identitarians," known as the Detroit Right Wings.

The Free Press could not confirm Saturday if the Detroit Right Wings were actually the group in attendance in Charlottesville. Requests for comment on the Twitter page carrying the Detroit Right Wings name and the same modified Red Wings logo were not replied to Saturday afternoon. The Twitter account, which had 25 tweets on it, 69 followers and 41 accounts it followed, was closed later Saturday.

A Facebook page carrying the group's name but not the logo was not official, according to someone who replied via text to the Free Press' request for comment at that site.

In addition, there was a post on YouTube by an account called "Detroit Right Wings" on Aug. 5 that describes itself as a "participant in regular activism related to the cause of preserving our people." The post has since been taken down due to YouTube's policy on hate speech.

On that post, there was a link to a GoFundMe page that sought to raise money for the group to attend the Charlottesville rally. It had raised $328 as of early Saturday.

Other than those references, however, there is no registered corporation in Michigan under the "Detroit Right Wings" name and no known paperwork trail relating to the group.

The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville was in response to the removal of a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. One person was killed and at least 19 injured after a car drove into a crowd of protesters, hours after a state of emergency was declared due to the event.

Helene St. James, Perry A. Farrell, John Wisely and USA TODAY contributed to this report.